While some living rooms may look okay without a coffee table, perhaps a couple poufs instead, we strongly suggest a stylish coffee table in every living room. Just like every contemporary living room should have comfortable seating, a side table and modern lighting.

Here's some of our favorite coffee tables that we might add to this space above:

In addition to all of these modern living room staples above, including these coffee tables above, there's one important detail that will add lots of personality to any stylish living room... Coffee table design books.

The annual Palm Springs event Modernism Week took place last week, celebrating their tenth anniversary. Each year this event celebrates beautiful mid-century modern design (interior and exteriors), architecture and art.

There's hundreds of events going on throughout the week to keep you busy, including home tours, showhouses and parties. Here are a few key highlights:

Some of the best modern architecture can be seen at Palm Springs Modernism Week.

The home tours include beautiful architecture as seen above and below. You can attend tours on your own pace by bike, walking or you can ride a bus and be guided through beautiful mid-century modern architecture.

Did you all watch the 2015 Oscars? Well, if you didn't then let me tell you that Birdman won for best movie. In honor of this well deserved win, I'd like to show you how to put a bird on your home design.

I couldn't help but document a pattern I was noticing while spending my average seven hours per day on Pinterest... There are some really amazing modern stairway designs out there! It's like these architects took every single opportunity they could, when designing these homes, to add ultimate style.

Floating stairway designed to be part of the ultimate minimal home.

Why should the stairway just be purely functional? It does makes sense to make stairs a pseudo art installation, right in your own home. The wow factor can also be something usually meant to be all function.

The best way to light a contemporary stairway, without interrupting the cool design, is with LED track lighting fixtures. It's functional, adjustable and best of all it's energy efficient!

Perfect mix of materials were used for this modern stairway design.

Stairway design doesn't have to be minimal to be cool. This design above expresses cool design through a confident use of mixed materials.